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Musicians and gamers have a lot more in common than you might think. Besides a mutual disdain for the rugged jock-types growing up, the two are all about living and breathing their respective art form. And on very special occasions, musicians will indulge their inner gamer and produce wonderful nods to their favourite games that both parties are sure to love.

Here are five times musicians nerded out to one of the biggest and most musically focused video game franchises of all time, The Legend of Zelda.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Every artist and every band you love has a genesis story. Some bands played bars for years before they made it. Some have had to totally reinvent themselves, and some were doomed from the start. I’ve been pretty cynical of new music, but most of our “new music” is determined in Hollywood behind closed doors. Wanna hear the real pulse of your city? Take a walk downtown on a Friday night, pop into a bar, and see what’s going on. You’ll also tend to find music at its purest in (and on) this stage; music created by people in love with their songs, and the art form. This is my plea to remember to support local music, and an introduction to the next phase of our saga. Enter The Implications: a band that’s dusting off an impressive list of accolades with their freshly pressed EP, Songs About Last Night. Let’s check it out!

Welcome to this week’s instalment of “Dom finally listens to albums the world has been raving about for years.” I don’t think it’s possible to have avoided The Arctic Monkeys. I can almost promise that someone you know is fascinated by them. I had a sense of their popularity, but I didn’t realize that what I was about to experience is the fastest selling British debut album of all time. Whatever People Say received a moderate yet impressive reception in North America, but across the pond, Whatever People Say was a smash, selling 1.5 million copies as opposed to 300,000 in the US. The only introduction I can offer this album: it may be the most British thing I’ve ever heard!

Have you heard of this one? We’re gonna wrap up our rap foray with an album that needs no introduction. Everyone knows Kanye. Everyone knows Stronger. Most purposed music listeners will know of Graduation. There isn’t much of an excuse for not having heard it by now. I’ll tack this up to a self-indulgent week on my part, but there’s a bit more to this album. There’s a reason that (almost) triple platinum #1 albums sell as well as they do. Why did this one?

Sometimes life happens, and sometimes E3 happens. But while we’re waiting for Fallout 4, we’ll take it down a notch and settle into a selection from Gregory Alan Isakov. Sometimes the best way to change things up is to dive in head first – no preconceived notions. Such was my introduction to The Weatherman, but I wouldn’t say it affected my experience of the album. If anything, it caught me off guard, and taught me lessons beyond the music.

Though past E3 stage shows have had their fair share of notoriously uncomfortable moments (We’re looking at you, Wii Music), nothing in recent memory can claim to be quite as awkward as Jason Derulo’s surprise performance at Ubisoft’s 2015 conference.

FLOCKA! What am I doing listening to gangster rap? I had a good time this week. We’re going to continue the rap trend and diversify all whilst recognizing success and accomplishments. Waka Flocka Flame’s ridiculousness drew me in. I’m a suburban white kid. I don’t identify with the music. I was audibly laughing at the absurdity of these songs long before I decided to start reviewing albums. I’m sure I’ll get you laughing too, but there has to be more to it, right? Flockavelli, Waka’s initial offering, debuted at #6 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums. This isn’t an unpopular album. The challenge to myself was to find out why, and as mentioned, I had a lot of fun doing it. BOW!